Smokers disillusioned and over-optimistic about quitting
...f expected to stop within two years, but in recent history only 6% manage this. Young people were also very disenchanted with smoking. Seventy eight per cent of those aged 16 to 24 declared that they would not smoke given their time again. Young people were also prone to extreme optimism about quitting. Eigh...Study finds no relationship between respiratory illnesses, mists from 'dental aerosols'
...d demographic information, participants provided a history of respiratory illness -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia or strept throat -- during the previous year. "Given that students in the last year of school would have more exposure, we thought that if there...Many patients with coronary artery disease still fail to use aspirin therapy
...nclude people with allergies to aspirin and with a history of significant gastrointestinal bleeding or gastrointestinal pain. As recently as January 2002, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, part of the Public Health Service, strongly recommended that doctors discuss aspirin therapy with their pat...Reducing postoperative nausea and vomiting
...male, being young, being a non-smoker and having a history of PONV or motion sickness. Additionally,the chance of PONV increases significantly if opioids are used for postoperative pain management. Women are at a three times higher risk of PONV when compared to men, Gan explained. Therehave been studies ...Study succeeds in closing gaps in heart attack care
...atients should get, adjusted for age, sex, medical history and seriousness of their condition. But research has shown that despite this effort to make current and proven knowledge available to physicians everywhere, preventable variations in care persist. The same is true for angina and heart failure, two o...Many obese youth have condition that precedes type 2 diabetes
...ed to obesity, a sedentary lifestyle, and a family history of diabetes. The prevalence of obesity has nearly tripled in adolescents in the past 20 years. According to The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity, 13 percent of children 6 to 11 years old and 14 percent...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
... there has been little quality data on its natural history or on the outcomes of two forms of treatment of this disorder occlusion therapy (patching) and topical drug therapy. Patching the unaffected eye has been the standard treatment for amblyopia, despite the lack of meaningful data demonstrating its sup...Food the center of celebration and subject for concern
... There will be breakout sessions on risk analysis, history of US food safety regulation, the biological aspects of food safety, chemical and physical aspects of food safety, and environmental perspectives; a general session on the safety of the food supply, with speakers from government, academe, and industr...Alcohol and nicotine: A deadly duo
... dopamine. Volunteers (10 male, 10 female) with no history of alcohol or substance-use disorders participated in two laboratory sessions, receiving either mecamylamine or a placebo before consuming a standard dose of alcohol. Participants then had their breath alcohol levels (BALs), blood pressure and heart...Decision rules and physician judgment
...asked surgical residents in Amsterdam to perform a history and physical examination of 690 consecutive patients with ankle injuries and complete a standard data collection form that incorporated elements of both the Ottawa and Leiden ankle rules.The physicians reported whether they felt a radiograph was nece...From sci-fi to reality microendoscopy to diagnose breast cancer?
...oses them to breast cancer or a very strong family history of the disease," he said. Breast endoscopy has been tried before with sporadic reports in medical journals over the last decade, but the endoscopes have been too large. Advances in fibre optics have produced endoscopes less than 1 mm across - ideal i...Women face high risk of developing breast cancer following radiotherapy for Hodgkins Disease
...e risk than the general population, while a family history of breast cancer increased their chances of develo...gnificantly higher in women with a positive family history of breast cancer compared to those with a negative family history; similarly the women in this age g...New study says people take mental stress to heart
... versus 12 percent) and were more likely to have a history of diabetes (27 percent versus 12 percent). Patients with wall motion abnormalities during the speech test had a 2.8 times higher death rate than those without abnormalities. All of the 17 deaths were men. Forty percent of those who died had new or...Scientific society offers development sessions for industrial members
...l 9, 12:30 p.m. This presentation will discuss the history and materials science behind epoxy surfboards and explain the process of building a high performance surfboard. Joseph J. Atick, president and chief executive officer, Visionics Corporation, Jersey City, N.J. Future of biometrics: utilizing the sci...NIAID study results support diluting smallpox vaccine stockpile to stretch supply
... as tenfold, dilutions in 680 young adults with no history of smallpox vaccination. More than 97 percent of all participants in the trial responded with a vaccine take, a blister-like sore at the injection site that serves as an indirect measure of the vaccines effectiveness. A report describing these findi...Parenting News: More than one hour of TV a day may lead to violence, Science study suggests
...esearchers investigated whether individuals with a history of aggressive behavior were more likely to watch large amounts of television when they were a few years older. In fact, the authors found that was not generally the case, suggesting that heavy television watching leads to aggression, instead of vice ...Edmund Pellegrino, MD, to receive award recognizing service, devotion to Catholic ideals
...ary doctorates. His research interests include the history and philosophy of medicine, professional ethics, and the physician-patient relationship....Under one roof: The risks associated with living in three-generation households
...d in three-generation households, 39 percent had a history of maltreatment, and 32 percent of their mothers were depressed. "Grandmothers are often an important source of support and stability for teen mothers when their babies are young," says Maureen M. Black, Ph.D., a professor of pediatrics at the Un...The Lancet Oncology and The Lancet Infectious Diseases
...easy to say that lessons should be learnt from the history of the nuclear deterrent, but unfortunately, with the escalation of the nuclear race in India and Pakistan, and the possibility of terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda acquiring materials to create crude nuclear devices, it is likely that the same mista...Hormone replacement therapy may be associated with increased ovarian cancer risk
...of 50 and 74, completed questionnaires about their history of HRT use and other factors that may have affected their risk of ovarian cancer. The authors found that women who had used estrogens alone had a 43% increased risk of developing epithelial ovarian cancer compared with women who had never used such ...